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Archive for February 2014

I have mentioned Carl Boudreau’s astrology in the past. For me, astrology is a little like the red wines of Beaujolais. Just as the truly great, long-living wines of Beaujolais were completely forgotten in the onslaught of the marketing hype of Beaujolais Nouveau over the last 4 or so decades (beginning to re-emerge in this decade), so too the great insights of real astrology have been lost in the onslaught of the daily “pop” astrology in the newspapers. Just as with those great Beaujolais, this has not destroyed the essential insights for us all carried in astrology, and Carl is, for me, one of the great practitioners.

Indeed, I have come to understand through my work just how much of what unfolds on planet Earth is foretold – dictated even – by what unfolds in the heavens, whether it be through monthly astrological patterns, the precession of the equinoxes or the mapping of constellations in the energy patterns of the planet, as demonstrated in the pyramids at Giza (Orion) and the key Gothic Cathedrals in France (Virgo).

The patterns and the messages of those patterns for February as revealed by Carl Boudreau in his blog and on YouTube are very powerful indeed.

For example, we have 7 major moon events (full or new moon) in a 3-month period (January to March) and only one in February (full moon on the 14th) – quite a rare occurrence.

Cutting to the chase, I quote:

Taken as a whole, this triangle marks a powerfully transformative moment. It puts our ideas and attitudes, indeed, our very personalities, in flux and moves us in a decidedly Aquarian direction.

This triangle, like this overall chart, leads us beyond political and economic reform to soul searching and thoughts about how we can better align ourselves and members of our community and ultimately our nation with the expectations of our higher selves.

Those clinging to the past, or trying to hold the rest of us prisoners in the past, have a reckoning in store.

End of quote.

Even if you have paid little attention to astrology in the past, I encourage you to take a moment and examine the amazing patterns that are present above our heads this month.

Thank you, Gillian. Certainly Iceland has done some banking things right; however, few outside Iceland are aware that their housing loans are indexed to inflation. Not sure if it’s the total original loan amount or the outstanding balance, but nevertheless, it’s a tad bizarre in my view.

Regarding the media, Craig notes “The financial media has been helping the Federal Reserve and the banks to cover up festering problems with rosy hype, but realization that there are serious unresolved problems might be spreading. Last week interest rates on 30-day T-bills turned negative. That means people were paying more for a bond than it would return at maturity.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25861717

And that’s not all. “Currently the Russian Duma is discussing legislation that would eliminate the dollar’s use and presence in Russia. Other countries are moving away from the dollar. Recently the Nigerian central bank reduced its dollar reserves and increased its holdings of Chinese yuan. Zimbabwe, which was using the US dollar as its own currency, switched to Chinese yuan.

“The former chief economist of the World Bank recently called for terminating the use of the dollar as world reserve currency. He said that “the dominance of the greenback is the root cause of global financial and economic crises.”

Meanwhile, It Pays Handsomely To Steal When You’re In Charge

Matt Taibbi writes “When the board of JP Morgan Chase gave its blowdried, tirelessly self-regarding CEO a whopping 74 percent raise – after a year in which the Justice Department blasted the bank with $20 billion in sanctions – it was one of those rare instances where Main Street and Wall Street were mostly in agreement. Everyone from the Financial Times to Forbes.com to the Huffington Post decried the move.“

Dimon’s raise, decided by the board of directors, comes after JPMorgan annual profits fell 16 percent in 2013 as the company pays out some $20 billion to settle legal claims from government agencies and private investors.

Lawrence Rafferty writes “I guess I am just naïve to think that if the bank I was in charge of was on the verge of civil and criminal charges and I had brokered the deal to “limit” the costs to the bank to $13 Billion in the one case, that maybe the Board of Directors might ask for my resignation, if not firing me on the spot!”

“Regulator William K. Black Jr. played an integral role in the prosecution and conviction of more than 1,000 bankers over the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s. . . . Black observed this week that the bank’s fraud proceeds “went largely to the senior officers and directors of JPM, Bear, and WaMu in the form of bonuses.” The Board’s behavior can therefore be seen as a divvying up of criminal booty, whatever the personal involvement of the Board members themselves.” http://www.shiftfrequency.com/lawrence-e-rafferty-crime-does-pay-for-banksters/

Is it any wonder this out-of-control financial disaster now reaches a terminal phase?

Three Banker “Suicides” In One Week

“Mike Dueker, the chief economist at Russell Investments, was found dead at the side of a highway that leads to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state,” reports Bloomberg. Former Deutsche Bank executive Broeksmit hanged himself at his South Kensington home. According to reports, Broeksmit had “close ties to co-chief executive Anshu Jain.” The most disturbing of the three is Gabriel Magee, a vice president at JPMorgan’s European headquarters in London, who jumped from the 33rd floor of JPMorgan’s building to his death.

Iceland Holds The Key

As you may recall successive Icelandic governments have forced banks to write off mortgage debts to help households. Unlike the European Union currently struggling with record unemployment (25 +percent in Greece and Spain), Iceland enjoyed a joblessness rate in December 2012 “as low as 4.5 percent, according to Statistics Iceland. The number of persons in the labor force in the fourth quarter last year was 184,600, which corresponds to an activity rate of 80.7 percent.” http://http:/www.shiftfrequency.com/strategic-failure-iceland-allowed-2008-bank-collapses-to-support-households/

And they’re not satisfied. “The prime minister recently announced that the next big challenge for the small island nation with the population of 325,620 is to see unemployment going to under 2 percent, because, as Sigmundur D. Gunnlaugsson told Bloomberg in January, “Icelanders aren’t accustomed to unemployment.””